Southeast U.S. braces for potentially "catastrophic" Hurricane Matthew

By Zach Fagenson JUPITER, Fla. (Reuters) - Hurricane Matthew, the fiercest Caribbean storm in nearly a decade, slammed into the Bahamas on Thursday and intensified as it barreled toward the southeastern United States after killing at least 39 people, mostly in southern Haiti, on its northward march. Matthew, which displaced thousands of people in Haiti, smashing homes and inundating neighborhoods, was predicted to strengthen from a Category 3 to 4 storm en route to Florida's Atlantic coast, maki